For remote villages in India, government relief efforts fall short

PUDUKUPPAM, India -- The tragedy of this tiny fishing hamlet is its location. The Asian tsunami killed 110 of its 1,200 inhabitants, and destroyed or damaged most of its homes and boats. Yet residents of this remote coastal village 100 miles south of Chennai , the capital of Tamil Nadu state, say that more than three weeks after the disaster ... (Full article: 884 words)

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